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St Vincent’s new album ‘Daddy’s Home’ delivers modern pathos in vintage clothes

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Given the ubiquity of 1980s sounds and aesthetic in modern pop music (recently taken past the point of […]

May 20, 2021 Culture

Ergo ho hum: Billie Eilish’s new single is her least inventive. Where does she go next?

Billie Eilish
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First published on Medium on November 13th, 2020   “Articles, articles, articles, write that you remain unremarkable” The […]

April 11, 2021 Culture

Larkin on lockdown

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First published on April 14, 2020, on Medium April is a cruel month to be stuck indoors, especially when […]

March 18, 2021 Culture

Thrilling Eve — Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s dazzling wit saves Killing Eve from its ridiculous plot

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First published on July 8, 2019, on Medium It’s worth pointing out, given the justified popularity of Killing Eve, […]

March 18, 2021 Culture

A Private War?

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This article was originally published in Progress on April 11th, 2019. As windy talk of a ‘truly global […]

May 2, 2019 Culture

Keep on schlepping in the free world – James Bloodworth’s prole odyssey

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James Bloodworth is one of the few writers around who is as committed to human rights abroad as […]

October 26, 2018 Culture

George Grosz’s internal commissar – review of Aftermath at Tate Britain

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In Vladimir Nabokov’s 1947 novel Bend Sinister, a simple-minded supporter of the fanatical Average Man party, which has […]

September 21, 2018 Culture

Firing Line reboot lacks Buckley’s quiet electricity

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The newly revamped Firing Line on PBS has in common with other TV and movie “reboots” the benefit […]

July 20, 2018 Culture

The Populist Illusion

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This article was originally published in Progress magazine on November 29th, 2017.  It is a sign of our […]

May 7, 2018 Culture, Politics

Otto Dix and the Robot Soldiers

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This article was originally published in Open Democracy on November 11th, 2017 (Remembrance Sunday). For the German painter […]

May 7, 2018 Culture

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